History YMMV / Collateral

* HilariousInHindsight: Javier Bardem plays the man who hires Vincent, and would himself eventually go on to play [[Film/NoCountryForOldMen one of the most iconic and frightening hitmen in cinematic history.]]

* EvilIsCool: Vincent.
* EvilIsSexy: Wait for it...Vincent.

* AwardSnub: An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. [[JustifiedTrope Perhaps justified though,]] as Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for ''{{Ray}}'' in the same year, this avoided nominating him twice in the same category.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_oxkmrn8A Rollin Crumblin']] for starters.

** Max and Vincent are stopped at a light. Max is distraught, Vincent indifferent. Suddenly, a friggin' coyote crosses the street, accompanied by the intro riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfF4t9-wpCM "Shadow on the Sun"]] by {{Audioslave}}.

** The briefcase scene, Cruise's outright ''scary'' speed and efficiency he uses to take down some thugs.

** The briefcase scene, Curise's outright ''scary'' speed and efficiency he uses to take down some thugs.

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler:Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a TheBadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Possibly justified since Vincent has been ''shot in the head'' right before the climactic chase, causing him to undergo something of a villanous breakdown.]]
** In the final shootout on the MTA train, [[spoiler: Vincent's trained, straight shooting ends up hitting the part of the metal door between the two windows, whereas Max's untrained, relatively chaotic shooting ends up penetrating the windows and (eventually) hitting Vincent.]]
** Though this all could be justified since [[spoiler:Vincent was still going after Annie even badly injured but with Max there and protecting her, Vincent started to slowly lose it to the point of losing focus, which would be something he would never do.]]
*** Honestly, Vincent status as a consumate professional is debatable from the start. Leaving his briefcase unattended in a cab? Shooting his first target next to a window? [[SarcasmMode Reeeeal smooth of you, Vince.]]

* EvilIsCool - Vincent
* EvilIsSexy - Wait for it...Vincent

* HoYayShipping / FoeYayShipping - Vincent/Max is a popular pairing in fanfic.
** Someone might have been banking on that when it came to the trailers.
* NightmareFuel - the famed "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJlsc8GU50 briefcase shootout]]." [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vincent draws, and then fires five aimed shots, in 1.5 seconds]]. (Even more terrifying: that was not CGI, that was not a stunt man, that was not slo-mo. TomCruise trained for that scene and then performed it real-for-reel.)

* AwardSnub: An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. [[JustifiedTrope Perhaps justified though,]] as Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for {{Ray}} in the same year, this avoided nominating him twice in the same category.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4EB9FKwN2c This]] for Max, and for Vincent, the attack on Target #4.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4EB9FKwN2c This]] for Max, and for Vincent, the attack on Target #4.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_oxkmrn8A Rollin Crumblin']] for starters.

* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain - Vincent]]

* AwardSnub: An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known. [[JustifiedTrope Perhaps justified though,]] as Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for Ray in the same year, this avoided nominating him twice in the same category.

* AwardSnub: An odd example. When Jamie Foxx was nominated for for Best Supporting Actor, a few people protested that he should have been considered the star of the movie, and that TomCruise only got top billing because he's better known.

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler: Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below... to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a TheBadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Possibly justified since Vincent has been ''shot in the head'' right before the climactic chase, causing him to undergo something of a villanous breakdown.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - the famed "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zJlsc8GU50 briefcase shootout]]." [[ImprobableAimingSkills Vincent draws, and then fires five aimed shots, in 1.5 seconds]]. (Even more terrifying: that was not CGI, that was not a stunt man, that was not slo-mo. TomCruise trained for that scene and then performed it real-for-reel.)

** Someone might have been banking on that when it came to the trailers. After seeing one, I honestly thought the movie was about Cruise's character wooing a cab driver he'd fallen for and the cab driver possibly returning the feelings despite the other man's true nature being revealed. And at the time I saw said trailer, homoeroticism was something that generally flew completely over my head.
* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Max. He goes through a lot of shit in the movie, and who knows how he is at the end even if he did [[TookALevelInBadass take a huge level in badass]].

* HoYayShipping / FoeYayShipping - Vincent/Max is a popular pairing in fanfic.

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler: Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below... to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a TheBadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Possibly justified since Vincent has been ''shot in the head'' right before the climactic chase, causing him to undergo something of a villanous breakdown.]]

* DracoInLeatherPants - Vincent, if the fanfic's to be believed

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler: Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below... to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a TheBadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.]]

* BadassDecay: [[spoiler: Vincent goes from being a cold-calculating hitman who can perform the improbable aiming feat mentioned below... to a simple thug with a gun when he goes after Max, a common cabbie. Since the movie didn't want to have a BadGuyWins ending, they suddenly gave Vincent a course in the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.]]

* EvilIsSexy - wait for it...Vincent